Soviet Union 1984
The Cooperative Research Project website gives a photo of Casey touring Afghanistan and cites Steve Coll's 7/19/1992 Washington Post article asserting that "Casey wanted to ship subversive propaganda through Afghanistan to the Soviet Union's predominantly Muslim southern republics."
In the case of Uzbekistan, one example of this propaganda was to have the Qu'ran translated into Uzbek.
The CIA established a front organization called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya which it uses to funnel Saudi Arabian money to the Chechan terrorists which launch many terrorist attacks against Russian civilian and military targets in the Soviet Union and later against Russia
Read more about this topic: CIA Activities In The Soviet Union
Famous quotes containing the words soviet union, soviet and/or union:
“Today he plays jazz; tomorrow he betrays his country.”
—Stalinist slogan in the Soviet Union (1920s)
“In the Soviet Union everything happens slowly. Always remember that.”
—A.N. (Arkady N.)
“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)